Alice
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Bronx Zoo in United States

Biography

☨ ♀ Alice

Alternative name:	Al, Luna

Identification

SSP nr	391

Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 50 years old
Origin
Born:	* 1893 wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†1943-08-27
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Bronx Zoo, in United States

Date of arrival

1908-09-03	Bronx Zoo from Luna Park

1904-00-00	Luna Park from Thompson & Dundee

1904-00-00	Thompson & Dundee from New York Harbour

1904-00-00	New York Harbour from Port of Hamburg

1904-00-00	Port of Hamburg from Firma Carl Hagenbeck

Record history
History of updates	2024-12-12: pictures from 1978 & 81 2025-03-17:

Latest document update	2023-12-03 13:54:18

† Alice is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1943-08-27 at Bronx Zoo, in United States, .

Origin

Alice was born wild 1893.

Comments / pictures

The North American Regional Studbook for the Asian Elephant names her as Al.

1904: Twenty elephants had been sold to Thompson and Dundee and there were also two bachelor elephants which were going to the largest menagerie in the world, that of Luna Park on Coney Island
Animals are my life, by Lorenz Hagenbeck

Alice came to Bronx from Luna Park in Coney Island from where her keeper, Dick Richards, also came. She was, from all the literature, the most "human" connected elephant that the zoo ever had.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Alice, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Bronx Zoo in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=2453. (archived at the Wayback machine)